GeminiJane
New member
I should get the word tomorrow that my :spyder:is in and depending on the time of day, I'll either pick it up late tomorrow afternoon, or most likely, Saturday. Here's the deal, though - suddenly I'm nervous about riding it home:hun:. I have years of two wheel riding experience and I keep reading about how that's actually something of a handicap when first experiencing the Spyder ride. Plus, my first test ride was horrible. I was all over the road after hitting about 55! Without turning the bars at all, it would just suddenly drift to the outside which spooked me. My husband took it for a ride, too, and was unnerved by the sensation, also. I was really disappointed because I'd gone with the idea that we would be placing an order that day. We discussed it with the salesman who then had the one person in the dealership that had attended the dealer introductory rides in FL ride it. (He'd only had about 100 miles total of :spyder:riding experience, though, and "thought" maybe it did have a problem - he speculated that since they'd just used it in a big demo weekend the week before that somebody had "curbed" it. We asked if they could have one of their service techs take a look and see what they thought - even if not that day and let us know when they got the problem resolved so we could take another ride. Honestly, I went away thinking it had to be a problem because I didn't think they would be able to give one away the way that one handled. We didn't hear back from this dealership (who is about an hour away from us), so I found another dealer two hours away (125 miles) in St. Louis and went there for a test ride and LOVED it. Totally different experience, BUT only went on back streets and residential neighborhoods so never got above about 45 mph but did have some nice curvy, hilly terrain and it handled nicely (since I was a noob on it).
So here's my situation that I need some of you with experience to advise me on. The dealership is located in St. Louis and once you make the left turn out of their parking lot, in about 50 feet you turn left again onto the on ramp and are immediately immersed in 5 lanes of traffic going 65-80 mph. It's straight highway and relatively all pretty good surface and it's only for about 30 miles before I can get off and then follow a beautiful tar and chip road that runs along the river for another hour before I'm back on two lane highway - but I'm concerned about having the experience (or obviously lack thereof:yikes
of handling it at high speeds and dealing with traffic. I do have a motorcycle trailer I could pull up and haul it home, but doggone it, it's sunny and 84 degrees here and I'd be passing up two hours of wonderful riding (assuming I survive the first 20 minutes
).
So - what's your advise for me? I've read a few of your posts about "high speed squirrelly manners" - should I go for it?
So here's my situation that I need some of you with experience to advise me on. The dealership is located in St. Louis and once you make the left turn out of their parking lot, in about 50 feet you turn left again onto the on ramp and are immediately immersed in 5 lanes of traffic going 65-80 mph. It's straight highway and relatively all pretty good surface and it's only for about 30 miles before I can get off and then follow a beautiful tar and chip road that runs along the river for another hour before I'm back on two lane highway - but I'm concerned about having the experience (or obviously lack thereof:yikes
of handling it at high speeds and dealing with traffic. I do have a motorcycle trailer I could pull up and haul it home, but doggone it, it's sunny and 84 degrees here and I'd be passing up two hours of wonderful riding (assuming I survive the first 20 minutes).So - what's your advise for me? I've read a few of your posts about "high speed squirrelly manners" - should I go for it?
